The Politics of Knowledge in 1960s America

Bibliographic Data

ID11204802
AuthorsAndrew Jewett (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume36
Issue4
Pages551-581
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0145553200010488
OpenAlexW4243217478
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited25

This article offers a broad sketch of claims regarding the university’s public purpose in the 1960s while noting that a vision of the university as an autonomous forum for moral debate cut across the seemingly insurmountable divide between young radicals and their liberal elders. Read through the lens of educational philosophies, the era's clashes did not simply pit liberal advocates of political neutrality against radical exponents of political commitment. Rather, many radical activists—and some liberals— believed that the university should cut off many of its ties to the wider society to gain a more critical purchase on it. Indeed, critics of Clark Kerr's bureaucratic “multiversity” often hewed to a surprisingly traditional conception of higher education

Bureaucracy · Law and economics · Neutrality · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sketch · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Law · Philosophy, Science, and History · Public Administration

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